One Plus Twelve ~ Foxy's March Adventures!

Hello friends ♥

Happy Sunday to all of you :) 

This year, I started a new blog series called One Plus Twelve

where I take one stamp ..

yes, just one!

and create a card with it once a month.

I chose the Fox (I call him Foxy!) from the Warm Wishes stamp set

from Honey Bee Stamps.

You can see my January card here and my February card here.

 There's an Irish blessing that says ...

May God give you for every storm a rainbow,

for every tear a smile,

for every care a promise

and a blessing in each trial.

For every problem life sends,

a faithful friend to share,

for every sigh a sweet song

and an answer for each prayer!

 So today, Foxy is enjoy March adventures with following the rainbow

and searching for a pot of gold!

The best pot of gold is the warmth and love of friends and family ♥

  Instead of doing a burnt sienna/brighter orange color this month,

I used my promarkers in a softer shade of tan.

My favorite color is green so today he has a green shirt on,

and the rainbow piece is popped up to give the card some dimension.

And the inside of my card has the sentiment and a smaller piece of the paper ↓

 

I really love this month's edition of Foxy's adventures!

I had an idea of a design in mind,

spent a little time working on it and just couldn't get it to come together.

At all!

I slept on it, woke up today refreshed and started again ~

and here we are!

Rainbows after the storm ♥

I've invited my 2 friends to join me on this creative adventure 

and you can see Barb's card here and Jeanette's card here.

What adventure are you up to today?
I hope, like Foxy, it involes a card or two!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

I'll enter this into:  Three Amigos Challenge - rainbows
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

 

A Year of Alice ~ card kit #1

 Happy Saturday, friends!

I'm the very blessed recipient of a card kit flood this month ~

another reason to love the month of March!

This month, I'll receive 11 kits in total with a very SWEET theme!

 

I have a beautiful new granddaughter named Alice ♥

She's our only grandchild and we are absolutely smitten!

 

My wish list for card kits included anything that would fit

the themes of her first year :)

Alice's first Easter, her steps, first words, Halloween, Christmas, etc!

Hence, A Year of Alice! 

My first card kit arrived last week and it's bursting with pinks and yellows!

Oh. so. darling!

This card kit was from my bestie friend, Barb!

 

Isn't it just precious!

Barb sent 3 images in total, and I've created 2 cards -

 saving one image for later!

The only thing I used of my own is the cardstock, glue and markers.

Oh and the sentiment - that's from a Neat and Tangled stamp set!

Here they are up close ↓

  

 Her mama, my daughter, is a special education teacher

currently on a year's maternity leave to raise Alice.

As a teacher, she has many books to read to her ♥

 

 I love that these images have a storybook feel ~

Hey Diddle Diddle and The Easter Bunny!

Thank you, Barb!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

 

You're so fun!

Hi friends!

Happy March!

I love this time of year :)

March often means the changing of a cold winter to a warmer spring ~

the birds are chirping, the flowers grow and the weather is so beautiful ♥ 

It's also my birth month and that's always fun! 

Something else that's fun ...

this super cute stamp by Stamp Anniething called Abigail - You're fun!

 I'm in a card group on Splitcoaststampers called the Galaxy Gazers.

The idea is to find a card in the card gallery 

and CASE the card to the best of our ability.

Last month, I found so. many. cards!

It was hard to chose just one and ended up wanting to try this one.

You can see Natalie's fun card here !

Wouldn't it be fun to hula hoop!

It's like being a kid again!

This was my final coloring yesterday for the February 2019

the daily marker coloring challenge.
I've been participating in the challenge for many years now

and each time, it gets better and better!

Wishing you a fun Friday and crafty moments!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE1909: Tooth Fairy Day!

Hi friends!

Peter Pan said "All you need is faith, trust and a little pixie dust!"

I believe him :)

There's a new challenge over at the CCEE Stampers Challenge blog.

Our hostess for February was Maryann 

and she shares her last challenge for the month:

"According to the days of the year calendar today is tooth fairy day.

 Make a card and include a fairy."

How sweet!

I colored the sweet fairy this afternoon after a LONG day set building

and painting and completing props for my son's upcoming Drama show

at his middle school.

And here is my full fairy card ↓

The background piece is created from a die from the Hero Arts May 2018 kit,

and pink sparkly cardstock was centered underneath.

I've colored the Swiss Pixie Ima Butterfly with my copic markers and added some Wink of Stella to her wings and signo white gel pen on her little boots and bows.

I'll be the hostess for the month of March!

I have 4 new exciting themes coming up

and can't wait to share them with you ♥

You can see the DT fairy cards on the CCEE blog here 

and they are oh. so. adorable!

 Thanks for your visit today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Gnome is where the heart is ♥

Hi friends!

I'm here ... hanging with my gnomies! :)

Are you playing along with Kathy Rac's the daily marker coloring challenge? 

 This month is almost over but it's several times a year ~ 

and you can jump in anytime.

Color as much, including full cards,

 or color a little, like a image or two and save them for another day!

The idea is to color something a little bit each day and keep the creativity going ♥

I am SO BEYOND BLESSED to be one of her Goodwill Ambassador's 

this time around and have loved zipping around 

on social media seeing all the colorings and sprinkling love!

 You can find me most of the time on Instagram ~ there is a #thedailymarker30day hashtag you can use to your colored images.

This was the card I made for yesterday's coloring - 

the card was remnants left on my craft desk

and part of an upcoming blog post .. stay tuned!

It's exciting!

I've used Stampingbella stamp called Gnome on a Swing

 and colored it with my prismacolor markers.

The sentiment didn't fit onto this card base so I switched it

with one from Avery Elle stamps.

Here is where you can learn more about the 30 day coloring challenge!

 

                                This is me! ↓

Thanks for your visit today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

 

Hey, good lookin' ... whatcha got cookin' ?!

Hi friends and hello Monday!

In church, pastor tells us without fail each and every week

"Look to the persons beside you.

Shake hands, introduce yourself and say hello!"

It's always funny because everyone in the pews sits with their loved ones :)

So we stretch way across and shake hands with everyone

within a 20 people radius of us.

It often looks like we are playing a game of human twister!

There are always smiles and laughter and warm greetings :)

And that's the same blessing I give to you all today!

I think all of you are The Gratest ♥

Today I have a set of 2 cards once again

by The Project Bin stamps.

I love being on the Design Team for The Project Bin

because of Denise's innovative and unique stamps ... 

like this set called The Gratest (spelled as such!)

I used the grater and the spatula to create these two 'punny' cards:

 For both of these cards, I used Fun Stampers Journey cardstock as a base.
These gorgeous background papers from Bo Bunny + are so rich and vibrant!
I decided let leave the images uncolored to pop against the bold papers
and added the matching sentiment to each coordinating stamp,
which I outlined with my Brother Scan N Cut.
Many of The Project Bin's stamps come with matching dies.
While this set does not, they are easy to fussy cut!

 

There are so many possibilities with this fun stamp set
and I hope you like the 2 ways I've shown you here today.

We are a busy family of 8!
Our kitchen is one of the most crowded - and happiest - rooms in our home
and someone is always cooking :)
Grandma always said food = love ♥

Here is the stamp set ↓

We have an inspiration blog where you can see the DT cards each week day:
The Project Bin Blog
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥
~Kelly

Hi! You're going places!

Happy weekend, friends!

Waving an excited hello to my new blog followers!

I appreciate you!

I'm so grateful for the friendship and support you have shown me!

Truly it is a blessing and the gratitude I have makes my heart smile ♥ 

It's been a wonderfully busy family weekend 

but I promise to visit you, too!

I've been coloring each day for the Daily Marker Coloring Challenge.

Yesterday I colored the pink balloon and cute critters and set it aside,

and when we got home today, made another in blue!

 

 Here's the pink one:
 

 And the blue one!

I colored these with a combination of copics and promarkers.

The pink one is sharing a little birthday cupcakes

and the second one has a little present :)

The stamp set is using W Plus 9 "Going Places"

stamps and dies,

and the rest of the card is using various dies that I own.

Thanks so much for visiting today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

RSG: Start Spreading the News!

Hello friends!

This was a wild and crazy wonderful Wednesday!

Thank you SO MUCH to my new blog followers!

I'm so blessed you found me ♥

On the 3rd Wednesday of every month, my 2 friends and I 

(Barb and Jeanette) create cards with a theme that out of the box.

It's called the Ready, Set, Go! Challenge ~

and this month, I'm the hostess.

 For the February Ready, Set, Go Challenge,

 I am channeling my son's recent trip to New York ♥

While he was gone, I kept singing "New York New York ...." by Sinatra,

 especially the line start spreading the news ....

 and I thought "Oh yes, that's something we haven't done before ... 

play with newspaper!"

  The challenge: to use newspaper somewhere on the card .... literally!

  (haha, no pun intended!)  

Use a small or large piece but it should be the main focus 

when we see your card and say "Oh, newspaper!"  on your card! 

  For my newspaper element, I created a backdrop of New York City, 

where he went!

They spent a week exploring the city ~ flying from Miami to NYC!

They saw - and did - and ate - and experienced just about everything!

I asked him his favorite part?

"Missing school for a week!"

I guess at 14, that might be my answer, too :)

I've used a stamp set from MFT called Our Story

to represent my son and the 'school' aspect - although this trip was all play!

He earned it through his hard work and dedication to school,

very high grades and sweet disposition ♥

To add a little fun and the winter theme and the snow he was in,

I added the fun penguin and sentiment from another MFT set, Cooler with You.

He indeed makes life more fun!

 And that's it for me today!

Thanks for your visit today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Let a stencil be your guide!

Hi friends!

I hope everyone had a wonderful day!

I wanted to share a card with you that I made today

with a stenciled piece that I made almost a year ago!

February 27 to be exact :)

The colorful stenciled piece has been sitting in a bin on my desk

 under some other things and I found it today.

It was time to let this beauty make it's way onto a card!

No time like the present! ♥ 

The fun thing about this is ...... 

aside from being super simple and super clean (easy, one layer!)

is that it was made using a stencil from a notebook!

I found these little sprial notebooks in the .99c store

 and picked up a few with different ones seeing as how 

the cover is plastic (easy clean up!)

and they had super geometric designs (very cool!)

 Here's one of them:

 To create this simple card,

I first layered a piece of white cardstock under the notebook "stencil".

Using my distress ink cubes 

(wild honey, worn lipstick, crushed olive and broken china),

and my Ranger ink mini blending tool.

It's best to let these panels set after distressing (especially oxide inks!)

and mine definitely dried - for a year! LOL!

I ran it through my Cuttlebug with a die and created the shape,

added a sentiment from an MFT stamps set

 and set it to black cardstock to offset the colors. 

Here are a couple at a glance:

It's always fun to be creative when doing art!
These notebooks with the spiral paper drew me in with the shapes
and I instantly thought of stenciling!

What creative things have you found?
There are so many ways to be creative with DIY projects!
You can look around your home
and find all sorts of wonderful items to use in your crafty supplies.
 
Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings! ♥
 ~Kelly

You are all so very PURR-fect!

Hello friends!

Thank you so much to my wonderful blogging friends

 and my new blogger friends, too!

I {heart!} you!

Your support and friendship makes the crafting community a beautiful place!

A few have asked how to follow! 
← Right over there!

Again, many MANY thanks!

You. are. PURRfect!

 

How is your coloring for The Daily Marker coming along?

We're up to day 18!

February, being a short month, leads us up to 28 days 

so we're about 2/3 into coloring wonderment ♥

This is the card I made for today's coloring 

using the CAS challenge on Splitcoaststampers - use 1/3 of your space.

If you look at the A2 size card front, take 2/3 away 

and that's your creative space :)

What a fun technique!

I'll definitely be using this again!

 The sentiment to match is from The Project Bin ~

I chose one that was small, long and skinny to match the line of the paper decor. 

And that's it -   clean and simple but cute and sweet! ♥

And with 1/3 of the paper

and 2/3 of the way into the challenge,

it sounds like we are in math class! 

LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!

May your day be PURR-fect in every way!

Remember to color a little, 

color a lot .... 

make a card or just some creative time

 ~ just color and have fun!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

TPB: You're on my favorites list!

Hello, sweet friends!

My children have the day off from school/college

so it's nice to enjoy a Monday morning NOT stuck in gridlock traffic! :)

 Something to be grateful for ♥

Speaking of grateful, thank you to my blog followers!

That is such a blessing to me!

Each of you are definitely on my favorite's list!

This thumbs up is one of the stamps in the newest The Project Bin stamps ~

it's called The Gratest.

It's a fun play on words in this super pun-ny stamp set!

For most of us, we use social media to connect to family, friends, loved ones.

The easiest way for us to all stay connection:

places like Facebook, of course!

 

When I saw this thumbs up 'favorites list' stamp, my first impression

was  ... that's like my top 10 most used emojis!

My top most used emoji ...

the praying hands, followed by the heart eyes ♥♥

How about you?!

I chose to use it with this beautiful family paper ~

listing all of the special people that are/were in our lives 

that we most likely stay connected to.

And I'm so glad to have a blog to connect with all of you!

You're DEFINITELY on my favorites list!

Here is the stamp set in it's entirety in the shop

and you can follow along with the blog for daily inspiration! 

Thank you so much for being a follower!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly